WRITING SERMONS WHILE ASLEEP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8016, 12 December 1904, Page 3

WRITING SERMONS WHILE ASLEEP.

A few years ago, a student, at a theological college, was credited with writing excellent sermons and composing music in his sleep. There was, perhaps, not unnaturally, a great deal of incredulity, and, to test the matter, the young man was carefully watched for several nights. He was seen to leave nis bed and to sit down at a table, and rapidly fill sheet after sheet with writing. On finishingeach sheet he read it aloud, and made any necessary corrections. Even when a sheet of cardboard was interposed between his eyes and the paper, he continued to write with equal ease. If a blank sheet paper was substituted, when he was revising, he would make the corrections in the exact part of the empty sheet where they would have come on his manuscript. An equallycredible story of a doctor, who was watching all night at the bedside of a patient, and, overcome with fatigue, fell asleep. Before doing so he had asked the nurse to awaken him if certain changes occurred, when he would change the treatment. When he awoke some hours later he was gratified to find his patient better, but astonished to discover the medicine had been changed. When he asked the nurse how this had happened, she said that during the night she had called him as requested, and he had carefully examined the patient, changed the medicine, and ordered a different treatment. Of all this he had no recollection whatever. " I had carried on the proper course of reasoning." he said, " and had met every emergency of the case, and yet I was sound asleep all the while."